What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking AWQ 4bit?

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking AWQ 4bit requires approximately 49.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 256K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking AWQ 4bit and how large is it?

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking AWQ 4bit is developed by cyankiwi, a model with 80b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking AWQ 4bit?

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking AWQ 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking AWQ 4bit by cyankiwi — VRAM 49.5GB, 256K context

Name: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking AWQ 4bit
Author: cyankiwi

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking AWQ 4bit is an open-source language model by cyankiwi. Features: 80b LLM, VRAM: 49.5GB, Context: 256K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.28.

Arxiv:2309.00071 Arxiv:2501.15383 Arxiv:2505.09388 4bit Awq Base model:quantized:qwen/qwen... Base model:qwen/qwen3-next-80b... Compressed-tensors Conversational Endpoints compatible Quantized Qwen3 next Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/cyankiwi/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-AWQ-4bit

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking AWQ 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking AWQ 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/cyankiwi/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-AWQ-4bit
Base Model(s)	Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Model Size	80b
Required VRAM	49.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-16
Maintainer	cyankiwi
Model Type	qwen3_next
Model Files	5.4 GB: 1-of-10 5.4 GB: 2-of-10 5.4 GB: 3-of-10 5.4 GB: 4-of-10 5.4 GB: 5-of-10 5.4 GB: 6-of-10 5.4 GB: 7-of-10 5.4 GB: 8-of-10 5.4 GB: 9-of-10 0.9 GB: 10-of-10
AWQ Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	awq\|4bit
Model Architecture	Qwen3NextForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	5.0.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Errors	replace

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